BGSAVE

Starts a background save.

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BGSAVE

The receipt verifies only that background saving started; completion and recovery from its output are not checked.

Tested example & replies

Requests below run in order against an empty database. Each connection authenticates with the fixture password first. Quoted values are strings; null is a nil reply; arrays preserve RESP order.

# connection: default
> SET sample value
"OK"
# connection: default
> BGSAVE
"Background saving started"